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10:1  I loathe my life; I will let loose my complaint; I will speak out of my own bitterness.
10:2  I will say to God, Don’t declare me guilty; tell me what you are accusing me of doing.
10:3  Does it seem good to you that you oppress me, that you reject the work of your hands and cause the purpose of sinners to shine?
10:4  Do you have physical eyes; do you see like a human?
10:5  Are your days like those of a human, your years like years of a human,
10:6  that you search for my wrongdoing and seek my sin?
10:7  You know that I’m not guilty, yet no one delivers me from your power.
10:8  Your hands fashioned and made me; yet you want to destroy me utterly.
10:9  Remember that you made me from clay, and you will return me to dust.
10:10  Didn’t you pour me out like milk, curdle me like cheese?
10:11  You clothed me with skin and flesh, wove me from bones and sinews.
10:12  Life and kindness you gave me, and you oversaw and preserved my breath.
10:13  These things you hid in your heart; I know this is the case with you.
10:14  If I sin and you observe me, you won’t consider me innocent of wrongdoing.
10:15  If I were guilty, doom to me; I’m innocent, but can’t lift my head, full of shame and facing my misery.
10:16  I could boast like a lion, and you would hunt me; you would do awesome things to me again.
10:17  You continue to send your witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me, a swift army against me.
10:18  Why did you let me emerge from the womb? I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.
10:19  Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed, taken from the belly to the grave.
10:20  Aren’t my few days coming to an end? Look away from me so I can brighten up a little
10:21  before I go and don’t return to a land of deepest darkness,
10:22  a land whose light is like gloom, utter darkness and confusion, such that light shines like gloom.